Timidity: How to Overcome itFunk, 1915 - 179 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 174 - As this impression, in the case before us, is extremely mobile and unstable the movements expressing it would be discordant and disjointed. "This is very apparent when listening to actors who have not perfected themselves in the fine points of their art. "The words they speak merely voice a reflected sentiment, and they accent it by gestures which follow the words, instead of preceding them, as would be the case in real life. "That explains the motions made by all timid persons. "Can we say that...
الصفحة 163 - Cognizance of his worth rarely produces in the timid any feeling but vanity. "He considers it a reason why he should take refuge in his timidity, and disdainfully isolate himself because he feels that no one understands him. "He thinks the opinions of others are very unjust; but he suffers less from this than one would imagine. There is a special kind of pride which causes him to congratulate himself on the amiable way he bears this lack of appreciation. "This does not have to amount to humiliating...
الصفحة 18 - Long-Ho, yesterday, and you must have seen what a ridiculous figure he cut.' "'How?' " 'Don't you remember? Just as he was making his grand salute on being presented, he stammered, turned round as tho trying to make his escape, became entangled in the folds of a rug, and, to save himself from falling, caught hold of a table filled with china. . . . The table upset, making a great clatter, while my unhappy boy fled in confusion.
الصفحة 20 - In his matter-of-fact way, he good-naturedly remarks : the main object of all progress, especially requires men of executive ability. "Other timid persons, feeling that they are Cut off from sympathy, shrink within themselves until they feel like outsiders in the midst of company. "But this kind of timidity rarely preserves its original purity. The person so afflicted soon cultivates solitude, and secretly thinks himself superior to others, to which cause he attributes...
الصفحة 27 - Furthermore, we have seen that they quickly imagine this indifference to be hostility, and this hostility to be persecution." According to his teaching, we have written, in a preceding book, the following sentence, which can not be repeated too often: "Energy is the highest goal of all things, and the world belongs to the energetic." LESSON II HOW TO PREVENT THE GROWTH OF TIMIDITY "WHEN I was one of the fervent disciples of Lang-Ho, the celebrated mind specialist, my master," says Yoritomo, "took...
الصفحة 93 - In a case like this it is the duty of the teacher to inspire the child with self-confidence by praising the qualities he possesses, and which, the person he is jealous of lacks. "In a word, the first step must be to destroy the feeling of inferiority which causes the timid to become envious. care must be taken not to go to the other extreme by letting him have too high an opinion of himself. "One can not imagine how very ingenious the timid are in inventing excuses for their faults.
الصفحة 75 - ... return as his heart prompts. Should we feel suprized if the members of his family, chilled by what they consider indifference, gradually imitate him and become less demonstrative, as they find their advances awaken no echo in his heart? And so the timid person entrenches himself every day within the fortress of his infirmity, and grows more lonely and more misunderstood. His lack of the sentiment of protecting others • — such a strong family tie — not only affects him, but his family also.
الصفحة 114 - ... dare' not ask advice as he only takes counsel with himself — he entertains illusions regarding the faults of his work, until his productions become extremely eccentric, so he still thinks himself merely unconventional. ' ' Many physiologists go so far as to say that art in the spring and fall exhibitions, which is quite beyond the comprehension of any one, is the work of the timid. People inquire why one artist paints women without faces, and why another paints flesh a beautiful sky-blue, and...
الصفحة 169 - This mistaken method of preventing vanity is still even more culpable when aimed at the intellect. "I knew a child whose mind — evidently not well trained — was atrophied by severe criticism. "He was so weak that he could not be taught the principals of art, or of war, and he became utterly indifferent to everything, and somewhat suspicious. All his family noticed this. "When wandering in the garden, he would hum to himself, and dream, and he would not apply himself to anything, so his family...
الصفحة 16 - When in this state, their self-love — violently at variance with their feeling of inferiority — blinds them, and so they are put out of countenance, and do all the awkward things they dreaded, thereby making themselves perfectly ridiculous." "I had," adds the venerable Shogun, "a young neighbor whose father was in a position which gave him access to the most brilliant assemblies. "At these gatherings he became noted for his awkwardness, and his maladroitness.